Comments about ‘Kicking oil habit is a great, difficult, expensive idea’

My kid has an lectric car. That jeeps starts every morning and goes at least a thousand miles.

All you Saul Alinskiy fans... look up; CCX. Now wasn't that enightening?

I get tired of people telling us what to drive how many kids to have and on and on. Oil makes our life a lot more comfortable. Hysteria will do more damage than oil.

Trouble is, as a country we've been talking about it since the oil crisis of the 70's.
40 years later and there are probably less dollars being invested in alternatives then in tax breaks for big oil.

Higv: Thank you for the Reagan speech from the me me me now now 80's after all why should I care about my kids, kids or using up a finite resource.

Whale oil was what my grandfather used, how can I deny my children the same luxury that I and my pappy enjoyed, that's unamerican.

"Oil makes our life a lot more comfortable." bet there's a whole lotta folks on the gulf that would disagree about now, probably even a few locals.

This isn't a sudden crisis, it's one that's been coming for a while, but it might make some "uncomfortable" to even discuss small changes.

Kicking oil....etc. is not practical until some President comes up with an energy plan and puts us on that path so that it will be possible some day in the future, not next week. From Nixon on, lots of talk but NO PLAN.

KM: Glenn Beck breaks the biggest corruption story of the century yesterday!

No that's not enlightening it's predictable since you sight Glenn daily.

higv, keep supplying those terrorists with $$ & putting our environment at risk for your comfort. Would hate for you to be uncomfortable.

Hey businessowners. You need to get the same deal BP gets on taxes. They punp a billion dollars of oil, well now they have a billon dollars less oil in the well so they get to write it off against the billion they just sold. Nice trick huh?

I sell a snowcone, I don't get to write off a negative snowcone!

It's OUR OIL. They don't give us anything for it. And they can sell it to china if they feel like it. Then they write it off too! That's what we should be upset about as well. You ditto heads are convinced that OUR oil SHOULD belong to the multinationals because if we charged them anything we'd be like gasp Hugo Chavez.

We're getting ripped off, owned and our heads are in the toilet for a twister.

tenx, President Carter put us on the path and he was ridiculed for it. They made fun of him for sugesting that a sweater can keep you warm.

Reagan, performed the ultimate post election wedgie and took the newly installed solar panels of the white house and made sure we would be oil dependent in his energy policies.

He did that even while he was selling weapons to terrorists to get the hostages back. Something Carter's morals prevented him from doing.

This country makes fun of people that have good ideas and morals.

Sure, every President since Nixon has talked about it but none of them have done the only thing that the government needs to do: Raise the cost of oil by taxing it.

Our free market economy is already set up to find alternative solutions as long as there is an incentive. The price of gasoline in the USA is far below the world average and diesel is actually more expensive than gas: Ridiculous.

There is a plan called 'Tax and Dividend' that would raise the price of gas to a much higher floor. Every quarter, citizens would get the tax back in a rebate check and could either pay their gasoline bill or be motivated to burn less fuel and keep the money. Obama won't consider it because their is no hidden way for the government to divert it or for the oil companies to abuse it. Industry would be falling all over themselves to sell new fuel-efficient products to consumers to capture the bucks. It could even be implemented by the Utah gov if the feds wouldn't.

@Screwdriver | 10:57 a.m

President Carter's big plan to get us off oil was to burn A LOT more coal.

Its not about energy, waste and shortage of same. Its about reducing the living standard of americans. Basically the national govt is not our friend. Its against us. It wants to cripple or kill us.

US govt is pro-white genocide. Are you pro-white genocide?

Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White Countries for Everybody

Annihilation by Assimilation. It is genocide.

Gee gwells,

What vested interest would the government (they're just elected officials) have in trying to cripple or kill you off?

You're not very imaginative if you think that the height of affluence has already been reached. You ever think that these conversations about solving energy problems might have some merit? That folks might actually benefit from some of the solutions?

Gwells,

Possibly you didn't understand that caucasians came from northern Europe and we invaded everyone else.

America is naturally brown. Maybe you should run back to Northern Europe. Quick! Hurry, before they GET'YA and make you have children with a brown person.

And I though Az had nuts.

This one headed off into some interesting places. Here's my take on it. Whether or not we've fought a war over oil or not, the next one will be. And, I don't care. We're so greedy and short sighted we'll justify our stupidity and greed with arguments and rationale beyond silly. We're going to engage war, trash the planet, you name it. But we will not conserve, for that is unconservative. Good. I'm tired of arguing, and I want your sense of entitlement to coast me through to the end of my life on a wave of cheap, consequence free energy. After that, who gives a rats? Right...? Besides, by the time any significant number of people figure out how stupid we are behaving now it'll be too late for them, I'll be gone and as for you...like you, I don't care.